Operating System Cognative Dissonance
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daI've come about 85% of the way to deciding to buy a mac laptop to use as my desktop computer. 15% reservations about it. I was at about 90% before I talked to dan yesterday.
On a day-to-day basis, the things I care about are: emacs (aquamacs), firefox, being able to turn on sshd, being able to use my media (photos and audio). This is all good.
Also there are my coding projects, which I currently do on my linux desktop. I want to be able to turn my linux machine off and still be able to develop in macland. Most of my remaining 15% reservations are about the development switchover.
Fink has lots of great unix packages. But if I buy (*suck in breath*) an intel-based mac, it looks less happy-shiny. The latest news I can find is that intel/fink currently relies on hackery and compiling from source. That's not the sort of coding project I'm looking for, when I really want to just install things to get a project done.
I just want the perfect operating system, 's that too much to ask?
Maybe I should just give up doing dev work on the same machine, and specifically boot a second machine for it. Maybe I should give up getting a mac laptop and buy a slightly cheaper intel laptop. Maybe I should get the mac, use it for what it's good for, and assume the rest will come along soon enough. Like Parallels- I could theoretically run virtual linux, and have the server stuff under the hood? If it's not stable yet, probably it will get there eventually.
*sigh* what a waste of brain-power, cognative dissonance is.
On a day-to-day basis, the things I care about are: emacs (aquamacs), firefox, being able to turn on sshd, being able to use my media (photos and audio). This is all good.
Also there are my coding projects, which I currently do on my linux desktop. I want to be able to turn my linux machine off and still be able to develop in macland. Most of my remaining 15% reservations are about the development switchover.
Fink has lots of great unix packages. But if I buy (*suck in breath*) an intel-based mac, it looks less happy-shiny. The latest news I can find is that intel/fink currently relies on hackery and compiling from source. That's not the sort of coding project I'm looking for, when I really want to just install things to get a project done.
I just want the perfect operating system, 's that too much to ask?
Maybe I should just give up doing dev work on the same machine, and specifically boot a second machine for it. Maybe I should give up getting a mac laptop and buy a slightly cheaper intel laptop. Maybe I should get the mac, use it for what it's good for, and assume the rest will come along soon enough. Like Parallels- I could theoretically run virtual linux, and have the server stuff under the hood? If it's not stable yet, probably it will get there eventually.
*sigh* what a waste of brain-power, cognative dissonance is.
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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:16 am (UTC)I'm currently without my Powerbook, but I can show you on Linda's iBook if you like.
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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:19 am (UTC)RT#52991
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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 04:23 pm (UTC)"still waiting for fink..."
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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 04:27 pm (UTC)It's so nice to know I actually tried something before a prof did (and then asked me questions about it).
I should find out if plragde is going to get a MacIntel.
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Date: Tuesday, 16 May 2006 05:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Thursday, 18 May 2006 06:12 pm (UTC)I'd prefer to hold off until the 2G comes out - first-gen stuff scares me.